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These were the radioed words of a Soviet fighter pilot buzzing a Western transport plane in the skies near Berlin. Failing to get a reply from his Russian ground commander, the pilot did not fire. But the message, monitored by U.S. authorities, was evidence of dangerous new tension in Berlin's aerial war of nerves...
...Nuisance. On and off for several weeks, the Russians have been sending up fighters to harass Western planes. Last week the Reds announced dozens of air corridor flight plans that would put Soviet transport planes at precisely the same altitudes at precisely the same times previously allocated to Western aircraft. This maneuver turned out to be sheer bluff; the Russian flights usually were canceled at the last minute, or the pilots simply chose a distant, safer course. But Moscow now tried another nuisance technique...
Some experts claim that it is not the noise that bothers people so much as the fear of falling aircraft that it engenders. Says Jack F. Ramsberger, executive director of the National Air Transport Coordinating Committee: "People still don't know much about planes. Only about 15% of the population uses airplanes. When most people hear a plane go over the house again and again, they get the feeling they might find it in the living room some day." Most complaints come during the warm months, adds Ramsberger. "Every year summer comes, the windows open, people are re-exposed...
...city governments in Scranton, Pa., Dallas and Honolulu. Without higher fares, he warned. Fifth Avenue Coach would have to lay off 1,500 workers and cut down Sunday and night service. He began by sacking 29 workers, many of them old-time employees disabled on the job. In reprisal, Transport Workers Union President Michael Quill led his 6,500 Fifth Avenue Coach workers on strike, and for perhaps the first time in living memory found the public on his side. Weinberg slapped back with a $37,305,000 damage suit against the union, claiming it struck "wrongfully, willfully and wickedly...
...Front was even more ludicrous. The British wished to ship a large Japanese army into Western Siberia in order to combat imaginary German forces. Not only did they blind themselves to Japanese imperialist designs on Eastern Siberia and Manchuria but failed to see that it would take years to transport an army of any size to Omsk which, once it got there, would be a thousand miles from the nearest German army...